"We've got thousands of investors counting on us. And we're a team of thousands of employees all counting on each other. That's fun."
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"People forget already how much utility they get out of the Internet - how much utility they get out of e-mail, how much utility they get out of even simple things like brochureware online."
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"I definitely believe people should pay for copyrighted works. And the laws are sufficient: They already require you to pay for copyright work. There's no confusion. The problem is...it's a heck of a lot easier to steal MP3s than to buy them."
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"Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people."
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"I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term."
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"Good ideas will always get funded, so that's not going to be a problem. But you will see that it will be harder and harder for bad ideas to get funded."
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"For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain."
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"We were hoping to build a small profitable company; and of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company."
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"Read the Declaration of Independence to your children as a tradition every Fourth of July. Make sure they understand why the word "pursuit" precedes the word "happiness.""
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"We also have no incentive compensation of any kind. And the reason we don’t is because it is detrimental to teamwork."
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"The people who are right a lot often change their minds."
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"It's perfectly healthy-encouraged, even- to have an idea tomorrow that contradicted your idea today"
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"People loved their horses, too. But you don't keep riding your horse to work just because you love it."
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"We are pioneers and the history of pioneers is not that good."
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"People don't want gadgets, they want services."
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"What characteristics do I look for when hiring somebody? That's one of the questions I ask when interviewing. I want to know what kind of people they would hire."
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"Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?"
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"Not the outcome any of us wanted."
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"Infrastructure web services had to happen."
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"Strip malls are history."
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